Seminar: "Call
for an Open Europe: views from civil society on access to EU
documents, 27 FebruaryThe European
Federation of Journalists and Statewatch are organising a working
seminar on the new code of access to EU documents on Tuesday
27 February in the European Parliament in Brussels.

The three
EU institutions - the Council of the European Union (the governments),
the European Commission and the European Parliament - have to
agree a new code of access by May. At the moment the drafts on
the table from each of them is very different and time is running
out.

The seminar
is intended to allow the voice of the "fourth partner"
in the discussion - civil society - to be heard.

Speakers include:
the Chair
of the Committee on Citizens Freedoms and Rights, the Swedish
Presidency of the EU, the European Commission, rapporteurs from
the European Parliament, European Federation of Journalists,
Statewatch, European Citizen Action Service, European Environmental
Bureau and Bankwatch.